Department of Corrections

Contact Visitation

• Fridays: 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM and Saturdays: 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM.
  *Sunday Contact Visits 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM will be permitted only for incarcerated persons who qualify as a primary care giver.

• Contact visits will only be allowed for approved incarcerated persons.
• There will be 3 contact visits per time slot for Minimum/Medium Custody Incarcerated Persons and 2 contact visits per time slot for Maximum Custody Incarcerated Persons.
• Approved incarcerated persons will be allowed one contact visit every 30 days.
• Only incarcerated persons who have been incarcerated for at least 90 days are eligible for contact visits.
• Contact visit requests must be received by the classification unit at least 14 days prior to the requested visit date.
• Cancellations must be in by 12:00 PM of the Wednesday before the requested visit.
• There will be a maximum of two (2) adult visitors allowed each visit. All visitors’ names, dates of birth, and social security number must be listed on the request form. Incomplete forms will not be processed.
• Visitors must be here 15 minutes before the scheduled visit time.
• Any disciplinary guilty decision will result in denial of contact visit for a period of 60 days.
• No contact visit will be given within 60 days of an incarcerated person's last disciplinary charge when found guilty.
• If disciplinary time is imposed, the incarcerated person must wait 60 days after release from disciplinary confinement.
• Incarcerated persons are not allowed to have anything in their possession during the visit and will be strip-searched before returning to their housing area.
• During a contact visit, it is permissible for hands to be held above the table. One hug at the end of the visit are permissible.
• No school aged children are permitted to visit during school hours.
• Anyone who has been incarcerated at the Ocean County Department of Corrections or in any State Prison at any point in time will not be approved as an outside visitor for a contact visit.
• Requests shall not be approved for trustees if the requested time conflicts with their scheduled working hours.
• If an incarcerated person is notified they have a regular visitor (video visit) and is scheduled for a contact visit that same day, they should refuse the regular visit because they will lose the contact visit unless it has been canceled as stated above.
• Incarcerated Persons found with prohibited items in connection with a contact visit will lose their contact visits for one year.
• Incarcerated Persons found guilty of criminal drug, institutional drug or alcohol related offenses in connection with a contact visit will lose contact visits permanently.
• Any incarcerated person that are found guilty of an institutional disciplinary while attending a contact visit will have their contact visits suspended for the rest of the incarcerated persons’s current incarceration.
• Incarcerated Persons found guilty of assault on any staff member or officer will lose contact visiting permanently.
• Approved incarcerated persons must be housed within the general population of the jail. If an approved incarcerated persons housing changes between the time of approval and the time of a contact visit, the inmate will be denied the scheduled contact visit until they are rehoused in general population. Reasonable accommodation will be made to notify the inmates visitors, but the responsibility of notification to the visitor shall remain on the incarcerated persons.